Sustainable Bioenergy, Farms, and Forests - July 20, 2012

A weekly look at sustainable bioenergy, farm, and forest policy issues

 

July 20, 2012

 

Issue Brief: Renewable Biomass Can Help Reduce U.S. Petroleum Dependence

Renewable biomass has a significant potential to improve U.S. energy security, advance rural economic development and energy security, protect and restore water quality and other environmental resources, and help mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. The 2008 Farm Bill energy programs were designed to help address these issues, and they are just beginning to make a difference. A relatively small public investment (less than $2 billion over five years) has gone a long way, and it has been multiplied many-fold by other matching public and private investments.

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Writer: Ned Stowe

 

 

 

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